With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you.

The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it was first seasoned.

To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.

Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.

The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]

Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.

What with your friend you nobly share, At least you rescue from your heir.